Good morning from Grand Cayman

FWHORN

FWHORN

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Reading about the Horns as my internet holds out here in Red Bay, Grand Cayman. Dean is giving us a sleepless night. Hello to all my Longhorn friends up there who I havent been able to contact, I am hoping this post catches your eye. Katie and I are safe and hunkered down. We are keeping our blog updated with news. Will be around as long as power and the net hold out.
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On the one hand, I feel for you, weather wise. Hang in there.

On the other, you're in the FREAKING Caymans. That is so unfair. Unless of course, Dean chooses to do serious damage.

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Looking at the radar now. Dean is definitely heading across south for the moment, but i'm sure things are about to get rough if they haven't already. Keep those doors locked and fingers crossed--and may the Eyes be upon you~
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Man you are very lucky. If it had passed directly over you woud have had to be in a bomb shelter or something. Jamaica and Cayman Islands are very lucky. Actually much closer to Jamaica than Cayman Islands. However, this is unlucky for Mexico and the peninsula. It looks like it could hit hard there in a couple of days.
 
Well by the Grace of God it seems we have been spared, it is directly south of us and we are getting pretty strong tropical storm force winds and rain but nothing like what they got in Jamaica and nothing remotely like Ivan here three years ago which devastated this Island. Never thought of using hornfans as a good distraction during a Hurricane but each time things seemed overwhelming came on here and forgot our troubles for a while and worried about who our starting receivers will be. God Bless the people on the Yucatan while we have been spared they are in for a mess later today and tomorrow.

Ready for football season because that also means almost the end of hurricane season. When will the offseason end.
 
That hurricane is taking the same course as our last Princess Cruise in the Caribbean.....Jamaica, Grand Cayman and Cozumel. Glad we did ours before it got there. Been checking in with the Weather Channel and it looked pretty rough in Jamaica. Would hate to see Grand Cayman get too roughed up....we had a great time there last spring.

Good luck to you, glad you didnt take that direct hit!!
 
Thanks for the updates. My wife and I got married on a small beach on West Bay several years ago, and we've been worrying about the islanders. We haven't been back since Ivan, but we're glad they avoided that destruction again.
 
I'm thrilled that y'all are going to be OK.

First visit to the Caymans in April. I wanted to stay. Just the coolest place I've ever been. And Hammerhead's has the best dam cole slaw in the friggin' world. When I win the lottery I'm moving there.
 
You have my thoughts and prayers. Having lived in Houston for a number of years, I was around when Allison hit, turned north and then came back...and I was also on my hands and knees praying in Lincoln when Hurricane Rita threatened that area.

Stay safe. Prayers go out to you.
 
Lost power for four hours around 10 a.m. but have gotten it back now. Thanks for the kind thoughts. People are out walking around outside now and cleaning up. A lot of debris but we dodged a huge bullet.

Loopy if you want to move this now, thats fine, thanks for keeping it on the main board so I could let some folks who's emails I dont have but are regulars of this board know how we were doing.

Prayers to all those still in Dean's path.
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The furniture was on cans in case of flooding, it elevates them off the floor. A secret our neighbors told us about.
 
fw - I have read you many times over the years and I KNOW you are smarter than that - I read Cayman FWHorn and 8/20 date and im astonished. did they shut the airport down? there just aint no way I would be caught there with Dean buzzing a few hundred miles east and Cat5 pissed. I saw the island a couple years ago when my ship was in port a day and noted most buildings on 7 mile beach were stacked with roofing material from the last 'Cane.
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The airport stayed open until about 6 p.m. sunday with the last planes taking off in pretty high winds. They evacuated over 20,000 people in about 36 hours of constant flights out. The line snaked out of the terminal into the parking lot and over to the rental car area as they tried to get 10,000 plus tourists off the Island plus locals who didnt have a safe place to ride it out.

We had a safe place to ride it out so we made the decision to stay. We only made it after the contractor who put up our plywood gave us the OK on the place. It stood through Ivan and had been strengthened since so we made the decision not to waste time trying to get on a plane we might or might not get on and instead got our place as ready as we could.
 
Cayman Airways the national carrier basically stopped all its regular service and with almost its entire fleet just flew people to Miami coming back empty for about 36 hours. It also did evac flights from the sister Islands to Grand Cayman (Little Cayman and Cayman Brac).
 
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